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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, February eight,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is role Model's role Models.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. I'm asking you to please go over

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. And let me just say to our

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regular listeners and viewers for your Daily Portion at eight am.

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Some of you have already seen it. At eight am

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on Sunday mornings, we have the new Sunday School of Thought.

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And for those who care, there is a reason for this.

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It is for evangelistic purposes. You will share this with

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your friends. It's about thirty minutes in length and based

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on the book Evangelism, page two hundred and forty four.

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I will not teach about it. You will go research

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it and then you will understand why the Lord is saying.

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This is what we will do here at your Daily Portion. Okay,

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let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,

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we do thank you, Thank you for this day. Please

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teach us to seize the day and live as role models.

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And if there's someone who's following Christ, help us to

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follow suit. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a

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man again, let's go ahead and jump into the Bible

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Book of Philippians. Somebody's catching up, like what evangelism, page

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two forty four. What yeah read that today? Please before

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eight am? All right? So Philippians, chapter three, and I'll

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read verses seventeen through nineteen the Book of Philippians chapter three,

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Versus seventeen through nineteen, and the Bible reads, be imitators

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of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who

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are living this way, just as you have us as

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an example. So he's saying, be an imitator of people

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who live according to God's principles. We're not people pleasing.

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We are not running after human individuals as if they

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are the standard. That's not the goal. So if you

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see something in me, let's make it modern. You listen

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to me, you watch me every single day. Right, If

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you see something positive, this is evangelistic, So imitate that.

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If I am kind, I want you to imitate that,

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that's really coming from Christ. If you see that I'm

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here all the time, never fail, I'm faithful at this,

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then really you're imitating the faithfulness that you see in

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a human being. But that faithfulness comes from the author

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and finisher of our faith. If you see someone that

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treats their spouse as God would have them treat the spouse.

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I have twenty four years of treating simon the way

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that God says. So you want to imitate that, not

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because it's me, but because that is a spiritual principle

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coming directly from God. You understand, be imitators of me,

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Paul said, Brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who

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are living this way, just as you have us as

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an example. For many live, for many live about whom

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I have often told you, And now with tears, I

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tell you that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ.

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So he's saying, don't do that, Do not do that.

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Do not be enemies of the Cross of Christ. Don't

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do that because we're not doing that Verse nineteen. Their

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end is destruction. Their God is their belly. They exult

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in their shame, and they think about earthly things. That's

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where their focus is. Don't do that, right, their destruction

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and whose God is their belly is their shame. Those

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who think of earthly things. That is the what not

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to do list. Okay, So imitate the spiritual blessing of

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the lifestyle of people who are living according to God's principles.

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That's as simple as we can make it. And so

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in that vein, I'm going to give one quote here

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from an eighteen eighteen sixty eight that's a year right, Yes,

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I'm going back there in eighteen sixty eight quote from

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the reviewer in Herald, and it reads, the Christian becomes

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a living epistle. That's a letter in a living epistle

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the world reads in his life the doctrine he professes.

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This is why when you're at work and people see you,

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God forbid, see you doing a certain thing, or speaking

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a certain way, or behaving in a certain way. And

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they say, but people of your faith community don't do

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that because they've been reading the letter. Okay. And then

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from messages to young people page thirty six, Yes, we

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can still benefit from that because I know the majority

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of you are not young people, and neither am I.

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But here we go. Every act of life is a

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revelation of character, and by our example we lead others

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either nearer to Christ or farther from him. Let me

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say it again, every act of this life or life

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is a revelation of character. So whenever I'm doing anything,

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it's showing, Okay, what kind of character does he have?

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And by our example we lead others either nearer to Christ.

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This is a This is a decision that we need

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to be making every day, all day long, with what

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we say and what we do, what we say and

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what we do, what we say and what we refrain

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from doing, what we refrain from saying, and what we

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refrain from doing. All of that should be giving us

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one of the one or the other outcomes, either nearer

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to Christ or farther from Him. Pick a side, choose

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you this day whom ye will serve, either the wickedness

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or God. Pick aside. And of course God always implores

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us to choose Him, choose life, choose holiness. Okay, And

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so our first lesson in that case is role model

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shape spiritual direction. So believers must intentionally follow that direction

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after the pattern of Christ. Again in verse seventeen, I'll

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read it one more time, verse seventeen. Be followers of me,

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and mark them which walk as ye have done, Mark

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them which also walk as ye have us. For an example,

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and I won't tell you the story, but there were

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a couple of people that I said many years ago,

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I'm talking about more than twenty years ago. I want

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to be just like you when it comes to broadcasting

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the word of God around the world. And well, I

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kind of do that today. You see what I'm saying.

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So that was one thing I wanted to imitate, watch closely,

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examine carefully. So identify one spiritually trustworthy person. We're not

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worshiping them, we are not following them. You can even

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go in the Bible and read and say, like, for me,

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the person is Joseph. Okay, that's the one whose model,

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whose model I follow. And then Solomon on the upside,

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on the positive side, regarding wisdom, I ask God directly

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and deliberately to give me double of what God gave

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Solomon in terms of wisdom. And so identify one spiritually

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trustworthy person you can observe more intentionally this week. And

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if it's a human that's still alive, I want you

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to schedule a time if possible, to learn from them.

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Oh oh yeah, yeah, we want to be really intentional. Okay,

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I said. I went to a human and said I

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wanted to be like this that you do. Yeah, schedule

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some time if possible. Okay. Number two. Lesson Number two.

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Bad role models live by earthly appetites. Their example leads

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people away from the path of God. And so what

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do we want to do. Examine one habit influenced by

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worldly voices and replace it with scripture centered alternative for

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the next seven days. If you overeat, go into Bible,

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find out what the Bible says about that, and do

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what the Bible says. All right, So we have role models,

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but more importantly, be a role model as you follow Christ. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,